Fold-collar.



R. O. KENNEDY.

FOLD COLLAR.

APPLICATION man nun: 1. 1915.

1,197,743. Patented Sept. 12,1916.

v I. [nverzizr B, w cm M 252 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD OAKLEY KENNEDY, 0F TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 CLUETT, PEABODY 8'6 00., INQ, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FOLD-COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Application filed June 1, 1915. Serial No. 81,326.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD OAKLEY KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certaln new and useful Improvements in Fold-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a pat of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.-.

The invention relates to fold-collars and more particularly to a fold-collar having a soft folded-over top. In such fold-collars it is found difficult to retain in proper position the lower or outer corner-portions of the folded-over top, which, in a fold-collar having a soft folded-over top, tend to curl outwardly and upwardly, seriously marring the attractive appearance of the collar.

The principal object of the present invention is to utilize the necktie Worn with such a collar as a means to retain said cornerportions of the top in proper position.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front view of a soft fold-collar embodying my invention with a knotted necktie inserted through the loops which hold the outer or lower corner-portions of the folded-over top in position. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one end of said collar with the top opened out fiat to show its inner side. Fig. 3 is a similar view llustrating the embodiment of the invention in a fold-collar having a more sharply defined corner at the junction of the outer edge and end-edge of the top than the collar shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1 re resents the band of the collar, and 2 a so tfolded-over top attached to the band in the usual manner.

In the collar shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower or outer corner-portions of the folded over top are rounded as shown at 3, illustrating one of the popular styles of folded collar.

In carrying out my invention, I attach ends.

to the inner side of the top near its respective ends, loops of tape, 4, which receive the band, 5, of a necktie, 6, adapted to be knotted after the collar is buttoned upon the shirt of the wearer. These loops, 4, are attached at their lower ends, 7, near the junction of the lower edgeof the top with its respective end-edges preferably as near the edge of the top as possible without danger of exposing the tapes to view in use. The upper ends of said tape-loops are attached to the inner side of the top at 8, at a greater distance apart than at their lower Said tapes thus extend, as shown in Fig.1, divergently upward diagonally of the outer corner-portions of the top.

When the collar is in use with the knotted necktie in position, the engagement of the band of the necktie with the lower end-portions of the loops, 4, in close proximity to the extreme outer corner-portions of the folded-over top serves to hold said cornerportions of the top in proper position and effectively prevents them from curling upwardly and outwardly as they tend to do. The upwardly divergent loops permit the necktie to support the ends of the top at a point more nearly adjacent to the end edges of the top, and to the corner portion of the top, than is possible with upwardly convergent loops.

By extending the loops, 4, divergently upward, I am able to locate their lower ends, 7, in close proximity to the end-edges of the top without danger of the tape-loops being drawn into view through the opening between the ends of the top, as is likely to happen if upwardly convergent loops be employed.

In Fig. 3 a similar loop, 4, is shown ap: plied to the inner side of the soft top of a fold-collar having a more pronounced corner-portion, 9.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A fold-collar having a band, a foldedfolded-owr top, and a pair of necktie-receiv- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ing loops of tape secured at their lower ends my hand this 21st day of May, 1915. to the inner Side Of the top near the junc' R tion of its lower edge and respective end- 5 edges, and secured at their upper ends at a lVltIlGSSGSZ v greater distance apart than at said lower H. F. HURD,

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